11 days in August: How Afghanistan fell 

Having spoken with a front line soldier years ago. He shared his thoughts with me and he predicted that the day we leave it will go right back to what it was before we arrived!

From all the way back to 2001, it’s like no one at the US State Department ever studied this part of the world.

My advice to our American Politics; "Stop getting involved in forein country's conflicts, so we won't waste billions and trillions of dollars. Let them be let them solve their own problems". Focus on our own American people.

It's a heartbreaking situation all around.

"The collapse of the house of cards that was erected over twenty years was complete." That pretty much sums it up.

How could our best minds have gotten it so wrong? Because they are not out best minds....

my friend who was deployed there said that the afgan army/police would set up checkpoints and charge civilians to pass through it. they would go into stores and take whatever they wanted and the owner couldn't do a thing about it. straight up theft

Our commanders on the ground knew that once the Afghans realized that they were not going to be paid, they would not fight...

It’s easy to examine any situation after-the-fact and point fingers but it’s more mature to take the approach of “lessons learned” and ensure this doesn’t happen again.

Pretty much the only thing positive the US can take from this debacle is to learn from our mistakes.

Britain, Russia had the same experience before us as well.

I guess Afghans did want to keep their freedom enough to fight for it.

Why close all but one airbase?

Put aside for a moment, the people who helped us that we've left to be shot in the street, how could anyone with a plan have left all of those planes, helicopters, and vehicles there? Incomprehensible.

The state department and the military need professional primary or secondary educators-- they would've identified their shortfalls in a heartbeat.

Mark Mill needs to be replaced saying there was no reason to believe that would happen

When you play golf, this is why you avoid the sand trap…

We learn nothing but wasted moneys and human lifes

america knows how to enter a country but doesnt know how to exit

Why our “leaders” decided to evacuate our airbase and send our soldiers 35 miles away to Kabul airport with 1 runway and unsecure. The Afghan army found Bagram empty, the electricity turned off. This is so strange because anyone would know that is asking for disaster.

Throwing money at the problem will bankrupt the taxpayers if it hasn’t already….

I'M NO POLITICAL ENTHUSIAST NOR DO I RESPOND, but from what "I" can tell, this has been going on FOR YEARS.....REGARDLESS OF "WHAT PARTY"...BOTH ARE AT FAULT. But here's my question that maybe one of you more knowledgeable people can answer: "HOW LONG DOES THE US REMAIN? At some point, the US has to retreat...am I wrong? What other allies are as heavily involved in this situation as the US??? 🤔

They just did not learn from Vietnam. And they’re going to repeat this again in a few years

The problem is we saw this before in Vietnam and did not learn anything from it so history just repeating itself maybe this time we will learn.

Afghanistan didnt fell. It got liberated.

This mission failed because the news media.

What was not included in this report was when the airforce base was given to the Taliban. Once the Taliban knew the US would not intervene, they acted. The fighters, knowing there was no air support, they could not succeed. I think this report is very misleading by not presenting all the facts.

Afghanistan is a country with many different ethnic and tribal groups. The Taliban all come from rural kinship groups outside the major cities. Some of the Afghan soldiers we trained probably have kinship and tribal links to Taliban forces. They didn't want to fight their cousins.

American troops were not in Afghanistan to fight the Taliban. They were there to extract Opium. ie the opioid epidemic 🤣🤣🤣

How do you spell disaster? No one saw coming? Lies upon lies.

TL;DR We wanted to give the Taliban guns, weapons, and other material, but we didn’t want to be seen doing it directly.

Yes I do understand the severity of the situation in Afghanistan and my heart and prayers go to the people of Afghanistan However, Um is anyone not going to mention, i believe Kerbers, amazing style at 1:25. That tie those glasses that color grey

this is what the dnc acts like

The US did and has, John Sopko, repeated this mistake before in Vietnam - enough military vehicles for everyone in SV, corrupt government, and watch Oliver Stone's Untold History Of The United States John and tell us is it spot on or missing any details?

LET THE MEDIA PREACH PEACE AND NOT WAR

What a cheap way to finish it. Just say that all Afghanistan is corrupt. How many of them died protecting their country?

U hope this ends

its easy to know how afganistan fell the people and mlitary couldent fight for there own people and soil. they let the taliban walk over hem.

listen to what the General said at the end, the bit about 11 days. he is trying to justify the lie he is telling. every troop on the ground knew Afghanistan was going to fall apart as soon as the US military presence left.

Funny he should say that when even I could see it happening.

They left billions of dollars worth of new advanced weapons for the terrorist, why would they do that ?

This story is repeating in Ukrainian right now.

If only the govt, fbi, cia, would employ Robert Spencer - scholar of Islam as an advisor. All of this could be avoided

How much of my tax money paid for this debacle. #iwantmymoneyback

THEY RAN. WHY IS THIS NOT DISCUSSED?? THEY ABANDONED THEIR COUNTRY MEN.

This was excellent. Nobody mentioned their Muslim religion and sharia law. Is that what the Taliban wants?

Please cover how the Kuwaitis are waving the American flag in gratitude for saving their country way back when. Perhaps even a story of how in gratitude provide discounts in oil or maybe even manpower on American foreign objectives.

❤️Thank you President Biden many millions of Americans are thankful that you and your administration courageously take on this wretched Afghan pull-out that should have been done years ago. The last three administrations didn’t have the guts to handle this difficult, chaotic and thankless task. We’re hopeful that all Americans who want to come home will be home in the days following

Smoke and mirrors ... watch what’s coming...

Lies!!!lies!!!lies!! There was cables n 23 signatures that said this would happen!!!

Eleven days made Afghanistan become a country of ruins, and that caused a desert storm.

The audacity of calling them corrupted when you invaded and killed them for over 20 years… they are far more honorable by stopping the unnecessary bloodshed.

All so a few Americans could get wealthier! And media is so on this nothing story.

Afghan ppl know foreign powers come and go and while they are there they make money of them but they also know their internal deep state will always be there working with their tribal clergy and elders and for them those are the real rulers of that land. Just because somebody placed a president and cloth them with camo don’t make the Afghans feel like they belong to a nation state because it is not as long as tribal system is strong. Most of the soldiers didn’t want to fight for a puppet president especially when they knew they were not going to be paid and their tribal leaders told them not to fight because they already been told by the deep state not to resist to Taliban because at the end of the day they were the ones that fought off the invading foreigners. So deal was cut months ago and now there is a class of ppl that worker closely with Americans for years and they are the ones you see around the airport trying to get out of dodge! In the meantime American corporations are counting their profits they made in the last 20 years now that the show is over!!

It teaches HUMILITY. . . if anything. . .

Ive watched so many documentaries about people who were held captive by taliban, and they all have similar experiences.They were treated well, and they later realised how the western media have tainted the taliban's image, just goes to show how gullible we are at times in trusting everything the media dishes out.

The biggest lesson that should be learned was that - You should vote FOR someone not AGAINST someone. Biden was who WE all knew he was.🙄

Pathetic, might as well let the taliban take over since they would do a better job overall honestly 😂

this country never learned from the mistakes from vietnam. sad

Thank you Joe Biden

No worries, they have a "strategy"...🙏

The Biden administration made history

I learned that West Virginia can defeat the US military. I didn't see that one coming.

Well we told them we were leaving & gave them plenty of time to prepare. That was stupid! Shoulda lied & got our people out 1st

Afghanistan is a land of tribes ruled by warlords through out their history , hopefully it will become a nation a type of Pakistan with laws and equal rights for all especially women

I am a Democrat, and I even saw this coming. Also, The collapse portion of the report has a Democrat leadership spin on it. The rest of it is on

Now the US won't get a chance to change all the restrooms in Kabul to gender-neutral😂🤣😅

SOMEONE TELL ISHMAEL THAT PEACE BE UNTO HIM FOR HE HAS BEEN DECLARED A LEGITMATE SON TOO

They should have done drug test everyone who is serving

This is what happens when you elect a President that was running for Senate.

Milley needs to GO AWAY .... seriously Trump tried to get out the right way and they convinced him to stay... These people are incompetent

Somebody supports the Taliban…..

We need Trump back ,no one has respect for "weak president" like Biden...I regret voting for Biden..